CCP releases EVE Online planetary interaction video tutorial

Nice vid.

They've done quite a lot to PI since the start it seems - it's not quite as click intensive as it was. Too bad it still looks boring as hell.

Warning: This post contains 97% carebear talk.

I gave PI a new try after the updates with Incursion and I must say it's quite a significant improvement over the original release in Tyrannis - but most of all, I think it's great that CCP are actually giving their features from previous expansions attention, even if PI isn't old. Their older fire and forget style expansions could certainly use some further developer time.

Either way, back to PI. I currently have operations running on five planets in the 0.2 system me and my pirate corp bases out of. The way I've set it up is that every planet harvests two raw resources, processes them and then combines the two processed goods into a higher tiered product.

It's not a system set up for maximum profitability, but rather a system made to generate a source of income with minimal effort on my part. Five minutes a day moving the harvesting nodes around and trying to match the harvesting rate of the two resources so one of them doesn't build up and eat away my storage space. Then when my covert ops hauler is done with his weekly supply run, he simply picks up and brings the produce back to highsec where he sells it.

Nets me about 120m a week - it's not much in the grand scope of things, but considering how little effort it is I'm going to keep it going. I'm sure people could make lots more if they only put effort into it, but that's something I certainly don't intend too.

On the other hand, I dislike PI for the fact that it's completely invulnerable to attack. The only way to interfere with another players PI operation is to catch him when he's collecting the products at the customs office.

Orbital bombardements nao plz.

Also, sexy accent tutorials, best tutorials.

Fantastic new feature in EVE. Compare that to the same old crap that BLizzard is offering and listen to them whine about cost of adding new stuff in their latest Q&A to realise how they are no longer insrested to do anything new and exiting with WOW.

Is this feature available to new players? I know there is a skill required to be trained before a planet can be surveyed, but aside from this, can anyone just jump in?

I'm thinking of coming back to EVE but i've been away for so many years, i'm pretty much a brand new player at this point :)

I've always been tempted to play EVE, especially with all the stories I've heard. The game looks like the type of flexibility and dynamics I've always wanted in a MMO, but the learning curve has always been very intimidating.

Should I consider playing, aren't there some intro videos here on Massively?

I love PI and how I can sell products generated from the production. But I would also like to see more content added to the game for PI. I am assuming Dust 514 will bring that factor out such as planetary control that will naturally allow more content for PI. And at some point Incarna will help to change it when we see it this summer\winter or spring. No pun intended. CCP wants to just get it right which I appreciate. I want to walk inside my command center. I want to explore the planets surface with my avatar in Eve and drive mining vehicles.

Steep learning curve? That's an understatement. There's no manual or guide. Just a randomly filled wiki and countless third party sites to refer to and hopefully after hundreds of hours of reading, you'll start to put things together.

There is a semi-official manual, now, put out by a third party. It's so comprehensive, that CCP even sells it in their online store now and recommends it.

The manual is in two volumes - each about 400 pages and selling for $50 (including shipping). That's right. A $100, 800 page manual for the game.